Help with Denford Machine config

Hello!

I posted before relatively recently about this machine I received. it's giving me way more trouble to configure than I would like. The amount of confusion the config itself gives me is painful. So I need some advice. I was advised earlier that the config I originally used (as was a startup with a machine) was off. so I loaded up the earliest config which did have the correct orientation and yet refused to let the machine move by itself in manual control as the previous config did allow. Seems like the spindle is controlled manually via VFD and I have no idea how to link it to the operating software. I have no knowledge about the stepper motors and the speeds and all that jazz and me looking into Google for information leaves way more questions than it answers. Is there a guide I can use that helps with the software side of it ? I would like to at least make some progress cutting things :c.

So.. config is no help tbh. The work area is not set and I didn't see a prompt to set it in the config wizard. so the result is a tiny square in the corner. The machine also does seem to home with no problem but the spindle does not move in any axis and I cannot move it in manual mode. The VFD when powered up does spin the spindle at a set speed. (no idea where that control is).

So I need help or a guide or something before I end up giving up on this thing entirely. It's clear it's previously used Retrofitted the machine but I received no documentation with it so I'm a newbie with a nonstandard machine.

I will link my previous post as it contains pictures of my machine. 
I can always try to splash out and ditch Linux as a software entirely and use Denford's software or something that isn't infinitely confusing.

Link to past post: forum.linuxcnc.org/38-general-linuxcnc-q...-machine-axis-config

THANK YOU in advance for any tips and tricks!

 

Not much to go on. Please post your current .hal and .ini files or compress your entire machine config and post it here.

Hello,
I do apologise for delay. I managed to get out the relevant files. I sure hope they will reveal what am i doing wrong.
Thank you for replying, I greatly appreciate it!

You have clearly wrong limits set for your axes, see the [AXIS_l] sections of your ini file:

this here tells the controller that this axis can move one micron in the negative and 8 mm in the positive direction from the home position:
Also you seem to be missing the homing setup, but you use a rather old version of linuxcnc so I'm not sure how that was done in your particular version.

I see...

I have not done anything to the Ubuntu software nor the Linuxcnc software when i inherited the machine so i believe the versions to be rather ooOOOOld.

Axis seems to be 2.5.0 version and Ubuntu Version is 10.04 lts.

I suppose before trying to resolve the config section i should try to upgrade the System. But is that relativly easy to do with Linux?